MicroRNAs: Something important between the genes

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 120-125

  Mallory, Allison C ^a   Vaucheret, Hervé ^b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

Author keywords

AP2; APELATA2; Double stranded RNA; dsRNA; Microribonucleoprotein complex; microRNA; miRNA miR; miRNP; nt; Nucleotide; RISC; RNA induced silencing complex; Short interfering RNA; siRNA; Small temporal RNA; stRNA; Untranslated region; UTR

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

CLASSIFICATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; REVIEW;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 1542351278     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.01.006     Document Type: Review

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